Perfuze, a Galway-based medical device company developing next-generation catheter-based aspiration technology to treat large vessel occlusion acute ischemic stroke, has closed a €22.5 million Series A investment round.
Scientists led by Dr. Andrés Hidalgo at the Centro Nacional de Investigadores Cardiovasculares have discovered that circulating neutrophils-;a type of immune cell-;acquire different behavior patterns during inflammatory processes.
A diet rich in red meat correlates with increased risk for cardiovascular disease but the underlying genetic and biochemical mechanisms for this link have not been clear until now. A new study from researchers at the Cleveland Clinic identifies the genetic machinery and biochemical process through which gut bacteria sequentially convert carnitine present in a red-meat rich diet into a metabolite called TMAO that promotes blood clotting and atherosclerosis.
A Cleveland Clinic-led study has revealed new insights into how a diet rich in red meat increases risk for cardiovascular disease. The findings were published in Nature Microbiology and build on more than a decade of research by lead author Stanley Hazen, MD, PhD.